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MISC
100
This is located in northern China and southwest Mongolia and is a prime spot for finding dinosaur fossils.
What is the Gobi Desert?
100
This will create a huge reservoir that will submerge hundreds of historical sites and scenic spots.
What is the Three Gorges Dam?
100
This religion stresses rebirth and the belief of life after death.
What is Buddhism?
100
These are professional soldiers that served the interests of the landowners and clan chiefs.
What are the samurai?
100
This is a huge wave of destructive power caused by an earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
200
This is the longest river in all of Asia.
What is the Chang Jiang?
200
The countries surrounding what body of water make up the Pacific Rim?
What is the South China Sea?
200
This is a series of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
200
These can cause disease or birth defects.
What are PCBs?
200
Higher cost, environmental issues, and displaced people are what of the Three Gorges Dam?
What are negative effects?
300
This river flows eastward through southeast China and joins up with the Pearl River.
What is the Xi Jiang?
300
This chain of volcanoes lines the Pacific Rim.
What is the Ring of Fire?
300
This is a religion that stresses preserving and restoring harmony in the individual and the universe.
What is Taoism?
300
In Japan, this is the general of the emperor's army.
What is a shogun?
300
Chinese militants attacked and killed Europeans and Christians in this uprising.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
400
This is located in the west of China and is the source of China's two great rivers.
What are the Kunlun Mountains?
400
This organization works for children's rights, survival, development and protection.
What is UNICEF?
400
This national policy is recently changing in China.
What is the One Child Policy?
400
These institutions are numerous in Japan.
What are universities?
400
Taiwan is called this because of its labor, technology, and exports.
What is a tiger economy?
500
This river winds east for about 3000 miles before emptying into the Yellow Sea.
What is the Huang He?
500
This is a zone of prosperity.
What is the Jakota Triangle?
500
This is a religion that stresses order, education, and hierarchy in a well-ordered society.
What is Confucianism?
500
This was an earthquake and fires that killed an estimated 140,000 people.
What is the Great Kanto Earthquake?
500
This person was the leader of the Communists in China from 1949 until his death in 1976.
Who is Mao Zedong?
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